Giambattista Lolli

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Giambattista Lolli
Full name	Giovanni Battista Lolli
Country	Italy
Born	1698 Nonantola, Italy
Died	June 4, 1769

Lolli Gambit

Moves

1.e4 e5 2.f4 exf4 3.Nf3 g5 4.Bc4 g4 5. Bxf7†

ECO

C37

Origin

1620

Parent

Open Game

Synonym(s)

Wild Muzio Gambit

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Giambattista Lolli (1698 in Nonantola, Italy – 4 June 1769) was an Italian chess player. Together with Ercole del Rio and Ponziani – who both also originated from the Modena area – Lolli was one of the most important chess theoreticians of his time. He is most famous for his book Osservazioni teorico-pratiche sopra il giuoco degli scacchi (English: Theoretical-practical views on the game of chess), published 1763 in Bologna.^[1] It contains analyses of chess openings, in particular the Giuoco Piano. In the King's Gambit the variation 1.e4 e5 2.f4 exf4 3.Nf3 g5 4.Bc4 g4 5. Bxf7† is designated after Lolli. It illustrates the Italian masters' style of uncompromising attack, which clearly differs from the rather more strategic considerations taken by, for example, the French chess player Philidor. In addition, the book contain listings of 100 chess endgames. One of these positions was used by Wilhelm Heinse in his novel Anastasia und das Schachspiel (English: Anastasia and the game of chess).^[2]

[edit] References

^ Lolli, Giovanni Battista (1763). Osservazioni teorico-pratiche sopra il giuoco degli scacchi. Bologna: in the printing office of Saint Thomas Aquinas. (Italian)
^ Heinse, Wilhelm (1803). Anastasia und das Schachspiel. Frankfurt am Main: Varrentrapp und Wenner. ISBN 9783598511462. (German)